50 years of women in space

June 13, 2013 |By AUBREY COHEN

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The late 1960s TV show "Star Trek" broke ground by having a black woman, Nyota Uhura, played by Nichelle Nichols, as a bridge officer. But it took quite a bit longer for the United States to send a woman into space for real, and even longer to send a black woman.

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The late 1960s TV show "Star Trek" broke ground by having a black woman, Nyota Uhura, played by Nichelle Nichols, as a bridge officer. But it took quite a bit longer for the United States to send a woman into space for real, and even longer to send a black woman.